London Breed

London Breed, 2019

London Breed (born August 11, 1974 in San Francisco , California ) is an American politician ( Democratic Party ) and the 45th mayor of the city and county of San Francisco in the US state of California. After Dianne Feinstein, she is the second woman and the first African American woman in the city's mayor's office.

Life

London Breed grew up in poor conditions with her grandmother Cornelia Brown in the then precarious residential district of Western Addition in San Francisco. Her younger sister died of a drug overdose in San Francisco in 2006. Her brother Napoleon Brown was sentenced to 44 years in prison for manslaughter and armed robbery.

She graduated from Galileo High School with honors and earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Civil Service from the University of California, Davis, with a minor in African-American Studies in 1997. She earned a master's degree from the University of San Francisco Public administration.

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London Breed was the managing director of the American Art & Culture Complex in the Western Addition district for over 10 years. She was elected to the San Francisco County's Board of Supervisors in 2012 and President in 2015. In this capacity, she was the successor to the mayor's office when the then incumbent Mayor Ed Lee suddenly passed away in December 2017. After serving as mayor for just over a month, she was replaced by the Board of Supervisors, fearing that her tenure would give her an election advantage. She won the June 2018 election as mayor for the remainder of Lee's term, which ran until 2020. In November 2019 it was confirmed by a majority in the mayor's office

London Breed is primarily involved in the areas of urban housing improvement, the environment, public safety, transport and quality of life.